Re: IOCTL function codes

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From: Mike Battersby
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1995 00:00

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Michael Rosenberg <MRosenbe@qcagsale.telecom.com.au> writes:
>Does anyone know of a better way (better than reading the source) of 
>finding out the meaning of the function code used by IOCTL for Linux ?

>The header file shows them all, but no documentation is there that I can 
>see which describes what the function codes do and what data structures 
>they maniupulate.

Many of them are standard type ones - try looking at a good book on unix
programming.  Apart from that, the source is your only friend

 - Mike

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